reducing medicare for wealthy seniors, 51% favor that move. and then you ask about raising social security age, nearly two thirds oppose. 34% favor. 64% the number that matters. oppose it. the last number for you to look at is across the board cuts. 75% say they favor those cuts. 23% say they do not. so a hodgepodge of things and mostly focused on the taxes, 60%. the president has that number to use in addition to what we learned after the exit polling election night and the results of the election. >> and so, i think it's a foregone conclusion that tax rates for the wealthiest of americans are going up and as a pra practical matter, i don't understand why the gop doesn't agree to that sooner rather than later and the onus on the white house to give something relative to spending cuts and entitlement reforms. i think people want compromise and a bigger deal than just taxes going up for those 2% and doesn't get us where we need to go. >> david, let's play what alan simpson had to say regarding the growth. that's the overall end game here. growi